National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

The Internal Revenue Service today reminded individual and business taxpayers that many energy-saving steps taken this year may result in bigger tax savings next year.
The recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) of 2009 contained a number of either new or expanded tax benefits on expenditures to reduce energy use or create new energy sources.
The [...]

Will you be making a payment with your federal tax return this year? If so, here is what you need to know about making tax payments correctly.

Never send cash!
If you file electronically, you can file and pay in a single step by authorizing an electronic funds withdrawal via tax preparation software or a tax professional.
You [...]

We had an incredibly exciting first round, with several upsets and amazing comebacks. There were lots of examples of competitors using various social media tools to drive large amounts of votes, and in many cases that made the difference.
Some match-ups show the entire number of votes logged for a particular contest, but we are only [...]

Every March, college basketball has one of the most exciting tournaments in all of sports. For years, the non-athletes and geeks among us have yearned to experience the drama, the excitement and the posturing that is the college basketball tournament – but alas, we don’t know anything about basketball. Enter the Shoeboxed Internet March Mayhem [...]

She managed our affiliate program, worked on pretty much every aspect of Shoeboxed, and survived working with the guys. We’ll miss you!
Julia’s off to finish her International Business degree at Rollins College. Come back soon!

I’m going to need some cake and candles immediately. Also, a party hat would be great. Why? Not that I need a reason, but Shoeboxed is celebrating its first birthday today!
We’ve been working on this idea since 2006, but we finally launched our original open beta version of Shoeboxed one year ago today.
Thanks to everyone [...]

You’ve either never heard of it, or you’re totally addicted. If you’re not Tweeting, you’re not on the Web. Sorry, that’s just how it works.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to post updates about what you are up to. Updates are limited to 140 characters, so you end up with [...]

Shoeboxed has returned to its roots, at least for a couple of days.
Taylor and Tobi had some meetings in Frankfurt this week, and were able to snap some shots of their trip. I’m their lackey today back in Durham, just forwarding along their adventures. When you’re in Frankfurt, you don’t have time to blog.

Typical random [...]

Some of us headed up to New York last weekend to show the big city what we’re made of. We pulled onto the Island around 4 am Friday morning sporting our new SUPER RECEIPT SAVER shirts.
Our debut on Wall Street five hours later drew a large crowd. And we met many interesting people. We even [...]

What’s different about this airport?

Oh right, Shoeboxed team members have arrived. You really can’t miss us when we’re out and about, and I just wanted to keep everybody updated on what we’re doing. If you’re in an airport and you see us, remind us of this blog entry, and we’ll sign you up for our [...]

As you may have noticed, we’re doing a little work on our servers this evening. We’re putting the finishing touches on a fix that will improve our server performance and get another server up and running. Friday nights in the Shoeboxed office: a great place to be.
Sorry to have to take the site down for [...]

You might want to sit down for this. We’re about to announce our best prize EVER.
An IPHONE is on the line today, people. Get ready. We’ve got an iPhone sitting in our office, and we’re just waiting to give it out.
So who will be the lucky winner? Well, here’s how it’s going to work.
If you [...]

A lawyer at one of the larger firms around here sent us a pretty funny email the other day that was definitely worth sharing. It’s about his experience at our local airport, RDU.
I just hit the men’s room at RDU before hopping on my flight tonight. Each urinal had a shoeboxed.com business card on top [...]

It’s tough being the Shoeboxed chauffeurs. Executive orders this morning left some important details out, nonetheless we pulled out the sign: “Shoeboxed.com for Bill Gates” and got to work. We patiently waited by the baggage claim.
For some reason, people were shocked that Bill was coming. People quickly found their movie cameras and filmed away. Others [...]

Taylor and Rolf spent a good deal of time over at the CED Venture Conference that was hosted at Duke’s on-campus hotel, The Washington Duke. They met lots of great people this weekend.
We hung out with the team from Grooveshark, a legal music sharing website that looks to have gotten their hands on a great [...]